CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by ZENODO Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, Vol. 17, No 1, (2017), pp. 23-35 Copyright © 2017 MAA Open Access. Printed in Greece. All rights reserved. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.258081 NOTES ON MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY IN THE GUIL VALLEY ALLUVIAL MIRE CORRELATED WITH THE PUNIC INVASION OF ITALIA IN 218 BC William C. Mahaneya,b, Peeter Somelarc, Coren Pulleyblankd, Pierre Tricarte, Allen Westf, Jonathan M. Youngg and Christopher C.R. Alleng. a,bQuaternary Surveys, 26 Thornhill Ave., Thornhill, Ontario, Canada, L4J1J4, bDepartment of Geography, York University, North York, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3 (
[email protected]); cDepartment of Geology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia (
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[email protected]); eInstitut des Sciences de la Terre, Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble, Université Joseph Fourier, BP 53, 38041Grenoble cedex 9, France (ptri-
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[email protected]), gSchool of Biological Sciences, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK (
[email protected]). Received: 23/08/2016 Accepted: 14/11/2016 Corresponding author: W.C. Mahaney
[email protected] ABSTRACT The enigma of Hannibal’s route across the Alps in 218 BC is one of the most enduring questions of antiquity. Many authorities, some of whom have never ventured into the mountains, have argued for various pre- ferred crossings of the Alps. Earlier efforts to identify the route focused on the two-tier rockfall and regroup- ing area on the lee side of the Range, originally described by Polybius in his The Rise of the Roman Empire, by Livy in The War with Hannibal, and later by Sir Gavin de Beer who searched out the topography and stream dynamics in the area of several projected crossing routes.